Hey, Maru, glad to hear that you're still around. Hope you'll be up to some more of you're inimitable posting soon, but I know from my own personal history how sometimes when personal situations/problems get REALLY overwhelming that you just don't have the time/interest to devote to things that aren't immediately in your windshield, kind of a 'Maslow's hierarchy of needs' thing. Also, the political situation can often be viewed as one of seemingly unrelenting darkness over the past 30 yrs, and when you're experiencing personal tragedies, looking at politics ain't gonna help you're mood any...

But Merry Christmas/Happy New Year, and thanks for your past humor/commentary!

Blast from the past, for sure. This is/was the very old lady whose first blogsite was born the beginning of January 2001...called "The Mousetrap" and it was the most fun I had had in my life up to that point. During Capt Bunnypants' and Darth Cheney's treasonous 8 years of whatever make-believe "leadership" those two mongrels were poisoning our country with, blogpages for letting off frustration & rage by real people (like me, you and our blog followers with active brain cells) was a kind of catarthis [sp?]. Today? Abe Lincoln must really be pooped from spinning in his grave as he contemplates the total madness/mayhem/and 110% sheer stupidity of his once honorable Republican party. I have voted for 14 presidents so far, "I Like Ike" in '52 being the first. Obama will be my 15th, kind of, even though I obviously am counting him twice. D'uhWell, Maru, it has been a long time since you lasted posted and there probably isn't much chance you will even see this too-long blabber from one of the ancient crones draining the American economy by using my Social Security to buy food, my Medicare to help pay for any owies, et al, I might incur and other drags on the *Government*. I apologize to the Koch Brothers and all the other filthy gazillionaires who are still raping the country by not having to pay....gasp!!...taxes. ("tax cuts, my ass!) Oh the horror! LOL